OF XEW ZEALAND. 1083 



series of punctures, which, however, only look like punctures when 

 viewed from one direction, and each also has three series of three or 

 four small tubercles, which are a little hispid at the summit ; near 

 the scutellum at the base is a longer elevation, and the lateral 

 margins are minutely serrate and hispid. The tihicc are destitute of 

 any but very fine clothing. 



New Zealand. A single example, from Murray's collection. 



1929. B. serraticula, "-i- (SJiarp ; Trans. Boy. Diih. Soc, 

 1886, p. 386.) Obloiuja, angustula, fusco-ferruginea, antennis pedi- 

 busque rufis ; 'prothoracc lateribus minus explaiiatis, serrato- 

 dentatis ; cli/tris regulariter seriatim sculpturatis, hispidulus, 

 guttulis minutis ferrugineis, griseo fasciculatis. 



Long., 3^mm. 



This is allied to B. auriculata, having a similar structure of the 

 head and legs, though the elevations over the antennae are not so 

 large ; the sides of the thorax, however, are different, owing to the 

 anterior explanation or lobe being here less developed. The thorax 

 is rather strongly transverse, the surface a little uneven, like the 

 head, closely granulose. The elytra have a very regular serial 

 sculpture, consisting of about nine rows of punctures, the punctures 

 being connected by a series of five crenate elevations ; they are also 

 regularly hispid, and have each three series of distinct, pallid-red, 

 minute spots, the fasciculation of these spots being pallid. The 

 legs are short and stout. 



New Zealand. A single example, from Murray's collection. 



1930. B.mundula, "•*•• (Sharp; Traus. Boy. Dub. Sac, 1886, 

 p. 386.) Ohlonga, angustula, subdepressa, fusco-ferruginea, subtiliter 

 squamose baud hispida, antennis pedibusque rufis ; prothoracc 

 lateribus anterius lobato-explanatis, posterius constrictis ; elytris 

 tantum ante apiceni tuberculatis, apice abruptius declivo. 



Long., 3mm. 



Antenncc short, with rather large two- jointed club. Head but little 

 elevated at sides over the antennae. Thorax with numerous slight 

 depressions, rendering the surface even [uneven. — T. B.] , not hispid, 

 and only with very obsolete sculpture, bearing a scanty, extremely 

 fine squamosity, which is more condensed near the sides, so that the 

 surface appears there griseous ; the explanate lateral margin is 

 yellowish ; it forms a rather large lobe, extending back more than 

 half the length of the thorax, and has a distinct notch before its 

 termination, leaving behind it a slender, rather short, lobe or pro- 

 jection ; the hind angle is also slightly prominent. The elytra have 

 no distinct sculpture, but are dull ; a "little before the apex'there are 

 some slight tubercular prominences, the projection being rather 

 backwards than upwards, so that the apex appears rather abruptly 

 declivous, and this part is of rather darker colour, the lateral 

 margins only very obsoletely serrate. 



Picton. Helms; one example. Distinguished from 5. a«)-/c«/«to 

 by the different sides of the thorax and sculpture, and the slighter 

 elevations over the antennae. 



